We answer your questions about an iPod comeback, an E Ink iPhone Duo, and more
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We answer your questions about an iPod comeback, an E Ink iPhone Duo, and more

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202627 min
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In this hotline episode, guest host David Imel answers your questions about digital cameras, iPods, E Ink phones, and the TI-84 graphing calculator being iced out of the Version History Hall of Fame. Further reading: Amazon is launching colorful new Kindles — and a case with physical page-turn buttons NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions HP’s answer to the MacBook Neo is thinner, lighter, and comes with OLED Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podc...

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Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of answering your questions, or at least trying to. I'm David Amell. This is Travis Larchuk.

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Hello, I'm one of the producers of the show. Today, we're going to try to answer some of your hotline questions. At the end of the show, we always say, call the hotline at Verge 11. What is it?

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It's, I don't know. 1-866-VERGE-11. Travis has got it. Anyway, we're going to do 90 seconds on the Verge, and we'll be right back.

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